Newtownhamilton is a small village and civil parish in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

The RIC refused to surrender even though the building was set alight with petrol from a potato-spraying machine.The 200-400 IRA men left the town at daybreak Discouraged and very drunk from the public house they had broken into beside the Barracks and had demolished the walk Between the Pub and the barracks.

One officer's wife and children had been hiding the whole time, With the Mother Helping load the magazines for the constabulary.

While the British Army had a major presence in the village during the conflict, this was scaled down and eventually removed entirely following the Good Friday Agreement.

In 2006 it was announced that the local police station would be upgraded to full-time status due to a recent bomb explosion caused by a nationalist still active group.